We haven't mentioned BBC Scotland for a while: a bloke called Alex Bell writing in the Sunday Times says it's 'dull and disinterested' (does he mean uninteresting ?) and the plug should be pulled.
Mr Bell (Fettes College and Trinity College, Dublin) occasionally presented Good Morning Scotland for the BBC in the mid-90s, but since he left, he says it has become 'unutterably dull'. Mr Bell was appointed director of research for the SNP in 1999, but soon returned to hackery as Scotland correspondent of the Irish Times. In 2004 he was back, occasionally, with BBC Scotland covering for Lesley Riddoch. In 2006, he was the launch breakfast presenter of Talk 107, but left after eight months. In 2010 he was writing speeches and working on policy for Alex Salmond, but they seemed to fall out in 2013. From 2016, he was getting an odd gig on the BBC Scotland panel show "Breaking The News".
When Ofcom cleared BBC Scotland to start, it forecast an audience share, in Scotland, of 2.14%. BARB doesn't acknowledge boundaries, but the channel is fairly settled at a share of 0.11% across the UK. The monthly reach is around 3.5m, against Scotland's population of 5.5m.
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